A Game Called LIFE
Snake looked at the caller ID on his cell phone and the incoming call ID only read Restricted Number. "Who is this?" Snake said in a stern voice, "Just call me RattleSnake, I'm the man who has your girl friend. If you want to know what you have to do to get her back I will let her tell you directly..." said the voice that was the same sinister one from Snake's message machine. Snake hesitated and then demanded to talk with Meryl, RattleSnake let out an evil laugh and put the phone up to Meryl's ear so that she could tell Snake what he must do. "Davey... I'm scared...please help me..." Snake was now certain that this was no joke, because only Meryl called him by his actual name David and the common nicknames such as Dave or Davey, Snake then heard RattleSnake hit Meryl, commanding her to coroporate. "Honey you must listen to what I tell you... RattleSnake has a game he calls LIFE he would like to play with you... it is not the ordinary game of life that people are used to, this is an ACTUAL game of 'life'. Meet one of RattleSnake's men at Shadow Moses, he will give you further instructions from there..." Snake shuddered as he heard Meryl's voice, it was as if she was scared more then he had ever heard her before. RattleSnake then got back on the phone and before he could talk he could get out one whole word Snake interupted him, "RattleSnake you bastard! I don't know who you are or how you know who I am but let Meryl go RIGHT NOW! I don't want to be a pawn in your little game! Don't you dare..." RattleSnake finally shouted at Snake " SNAKE! YOU DUM ASSHOLE! IF YOU BACK OUT ON THIS GAME I WILL KILL MERYL AND TO MAKE MY YOUR PAIN EVEN WORSE I WILL LET YOU HEAR ME DO IT AS WELL AS SEND YOU A RECORDING OF THE TORTURE LEADING UP TO THE TIME I KILL HER! NOW IF YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN JUST TELL ME BUT IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE... YOU WILL FOLLOW MY ORDERS AND YOU WILL BE THE PAWN IN MY GAME OF 'LIFE'. DO YOU UNDERSTAND 'DAVEY'?" Snake was outraged "DON'T CALL ME DAVEY!" Then Snake gained his composure "yes I understand I will follow what you say just don't hurt her." RattleSnake hissed "goood, bye bye Solid Snake and welcome to my little game of 'LIFE'."
As Snake put the phone away, he hit the steering wheel of his jeep with rage, and then he sinked down into the snake skin patterned seat, put his face in his hands and quietly wept. "DAMN, I should have waited for you... I should have been more careful... I'm so sorry Meryl... I'm so sorry." Snake then saw his tear stained face in the mirror and quickly wiped his face and peeled out of the driveway and headed out but then he saw Juno, his oldest friend and the one thing he could trust. Juno was Snake's first huskey he got after Zanzibar Land, he was old but still amazingly healthy and very obediant to his master. Snake's blue/grey eyes looked into the light blue eyes of Juno, then Snake opened the side door and whistled for Juno to come. The dog barked happily and jumped into the passenger side of the jeep. "Well at least I will have someone to talk to eh boy?" said Snake while petting Juno on the head and scratching his ears. Juno gave Snake a lick on the face, this made Snake chuckle. "Okay boy lets go find Meryl" Snake said to his faithfu companion. With that Snake drove off to his first destination Shadow Moses Island.